5. 1790: Naigeon and the Adresse à l’Assemblée nationale

In 1784 Diderot died. The following year, the set of manuscripts which Diderot had prepared for Catherine II were sent off to her along with all his books. No catalogue of his library survives, and the books themselves have been dispersed or lost. The manuscripts, however, would go on to form the basis of the edition of his complete works that Jules Assézat and Maurice Tourneux prepared, and which came out in twenty volumes between 1875 and 1877. The Éléments de physiologie is to be found in ..